This book examines the tensions arisen as monarchy, military, bureaucracy, the Buddhist sangha, and business interests, with reference to the major changes that have taken place in Thai society, economy…

This text examines how Thailand has been experiencing a crisis of cultural identity since the 1970s, a crisis rooted in the fundamental questioning of the hierarchical socio-political order that emerged…

Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of twenty-first-century Burma…

Broadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steele examines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, from conservative scripturalists to pluralist cosmopolitans, at five exemplary news organizations in Malaysia…